today was a very nice day for me. today we did something which i never heard of and i never try or did it. it was call bilingual jatra.Β it was very new for me.Β we did this on the athletics days. there were people from AISDΒ who joined us in the workshop. it was very quite huge group. it was like 10 -11 people.
we started the workshop by doing some warm up exercise.Β the exercise was related to theater.Β the first exercise was reflection. in the first exercise we were supposed to choose a partner. then we had to imagine that there is a mirror between both the people. so what every the person does the second person had to do it.Β we did it for like 10min. it was really fun. but i couldn’t follow my partner because i wasn’t focusing on it but after tying and trying i finally did it π π :).Β i was so happy when i did it. in this exercise we were allowed to move around. it was really fun. the auditorium was big that’s why no one hurt each other.
in this type of jatra singing and dancing is very important . to show us a demonstration one of the teacher came up on the stage and he did showed us some dance steps and he was singing was well. the song was in bangla. the name of the song was “AMAR PAGLA GHORA”. some of the people from both AISD and ISD didn’t understand bangla but still they tried to sing the song and do the dance. one thing about both the AISD and ISD people was that they weren’t shy or afraid of doing something. they really like to try this things. i like this thing very much because inΒ my opinion if you are shy or anything then that person can never do drama. drama is a art and in drama we have to open yourself. we have to free yourself.
after the singing and dancing we were given a script. romeo and Juliet script. it was the Shakespeare version. i think that Shakespeare version is very haed to read and pronunce. i didn’t know how will i do . this was the first time i would read a script like this. but than i realized that everything has a first time and i love to try new things. so i decided to give it a go. AISD people was also involved in this. while starting the script we were asked to introduce our self to the AISD people because for the AISD people we were new and for them we were new. after we get to know each other names we started doing the script. in was a BILINGUAL JATRA so we were not allowed to read the whole script line wise. we were given the most popular scene (the balcony scene). we had to act the scene. in this jatra we involve some bangla in it. so for our scene juliet part was fine. Juliet had to talk in English. the Shakespeare language but for ROMEO it was different. we were asked to translate romeo’s line in bangla. which was really hard because when i read the scene i didn’t understand half of the meaning of it π π :P. so i didn’t know what to do. i was really scared that time because we were supposed to show our thing it front of every one. then one of the teacher came to us and she said to me that it is not necessary that we translate each and every sentence or word. we just need to understand what the writer actually wants to say us. after that i feel like i can do it. so i decided to do romeo’s part. i understand what the writer was trying to say the readers. so, i just go for it. naureen was my patner and she was playing juliet’s part as she is good in english and she understand shakespeare’s stories very nicely and for me i was comfortable with bangla. so i decided to me ROMEO.we had only 10 minutes to prepare. me and naureen practice our lines like 5 times. so we were not scared at all. we knew that we need to give our best π π :).
when our time was up, one by one evry one went to the stage and did their scene. naureen’s and mine performance was the scond last. when i was getting up from my chair i was really nervous. i knew that we were not marked on this thing but still i was scared. i was thinking that if i do something wrong than what will i do. but naureen said to me that everything will be fine. so me and naureen went on the stage and did our scene. when i was doing my part i wasn’t looking at the audience because i knew that if i do so that i will be nervous and i will mess up everything. when we were done everyone was looking at us as they didn’t realize that the thing was over. i didn’t know was it a good thing or not. but i was proud of myself that i did my best and i didn’t do any mistake. after a while the audience started clapping. that time i feel really good.
over all this workshop was very good. i really liked the workshop. English and bangla mixed drama. i will love to do this again π π :). from this i get to know that by understanding the meaning of something we can translate it into many different language and if you try doing something we can definitely do it. nothing is impossible if we try and in theater we have to try different things. π π :).
after everything was over and i was going towards the filed miss farjahan (bagla teacher) asked me about this think and she asked me to be prepared. i didn’t understand why did she asked me to be ready. then she told me that the bangla department is going to do something like this and she want’s me to take part in it. i directly said ok to her because by doing the bilingual jatra i know are the main techniques and what are the things which are important for this jatra π π :). learning new things make me feel very happy : ) π π